[PATCH v5 07/10] gna: add GNA_COMPUTE ioctl

[Linus Walleij]

Hi Maciej,

thanks for your patch!

On Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 7:57 PM Maciej Kwapulinski
<maciej.kwapulinski at linux.intel.com> wrote:

> From: Tomasz Jankowski <tomasz1.jankowski at intel.com>
>
> This is the ioctl context part of score request + "do nothing" work queue
> implementation. Work queue context actual part will be added by next patch.
>
> signed-off-by: Tomasz Jankowski <tomasz1.jankowski at intel.com>
> Tested-by: Mikolaj Grzybowski <mikolajx.grzybowski at intel.com>
> Co-developed-by: Anisha Dattatraya Kulkarni <anisha.dattatraya.kulkarni at intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Anisha Dattatraya Kulkarni <anisha.dattatraya.kulkarni at intel.com>
> Co-developed-by: Jianxun Zhang <jianxun.zhang at linux.intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jianxun Zhang <jianxun.zhang at linux.intel.com>
> Co-developed-by: Maciej Kwapulinski <maciej.kwapulinski at linux.intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Maciej Kwapulinski <maciej.kwapulinski at linux.intel.com>

This patch start to introduce the actual work processing IIUC.

So there is some funny lingo used here that should be in the commit
message:

- Patches
- Processes
- Scores

These terms are used without any explanation of what it is and what the
purpose is.

"Patches" is especially problematic for kernel developers since we use
it for our development work.

Musicians may start to think about the patch cables used on an old analog
synthesizer and they call the diffferent sound settings "patches" in analogy
with that.

In this case I suspect that "patches" in this context is unrelated to either
concept and rather a new name for "computer program executing in
funny processor", the same way that graphics people insist in calling
their computer programs "shaders". I guess a "process" is one such
"patch" executing in the accelerator? I am just guessing. I need to be
explained to.

If this is accepted lingo then so be it, but bums like me need to have
it spelled out to understand what is going on.

Some examples of patces, processes and scores will be needed in
the commit message.

Yours,
Linus Walleij